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Sugar

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Noun

1. refined sugar, sugar

a white crystalline carbohydrate used as a sweetener and preservative

2. carbohydrate, saccharide, sugar

an essential structural component of living cells and source of energy for animals; includes simple sugars with small molecules as well as macromolecular substances; are classified according to the number of monosaccharide groups they contain

3. boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, lucre, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum

informal terms for money

Verb

4. saccharify, sugar

sweeten with sugar

Example Sentences:
'sugar your tea'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Sugar

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noun
1. Also called: sucrose, saccharose
a white crystalline sweet carbohydrate, a disaccharide, found in many plants and extracted from sugar cane and sugar beet: it is used esp as a sweetening agent in food and drinks. Formula: C12H22O11
▶ Related adjective: saccharine
2. 
any of a class of simple water-soluble carbohydrates, such as sucrose, lactose, and fructose
3. informal, mainly US and Canadian
a term of affection, esp for one's sweetheart
4. rare a slang word for money
5.  a slang name for LSD
verb
6. (transitive)
to add sugar to; make sweet
7. (transitive)
to cover or sprinkle with sugar
8. (intransitive)
to produce sugar
9.  sugar the pill
noun
Alan (Michael). Baron. born 1947, British electronics entrepreneur; chairman of Amstrad (1968–2008); noted for his BBC series The Apprentice (from 2005)

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Sugar

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noun
1. 
any of a class of sweet, soluble, crystalline carbohydrates, as the disaccharides and the monosaccharides
2. 
sucrose, esp. when prepared as a crystalline or powdered substance used as a food and sweetening agent
3. 
a sugar bowl, specif. as forming a set with a creamer
4. 
flattery; honeyed words
5. 
sugar diabetes
6.  Informal
darling; sweetheart
7.  Slang
money
verb transitive
8. 
to mix, cover, sprinkle, or sweeten with sugar
9. 
sugarcoat
verb intransitive
10.  US
to form sugar
11.  US
to boil down maple syrup to form maple sugar
usually with off

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Sugar

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n.
1. A sweet crystalline or powdered substance, white when pure, consisting of sucrose obtained mainly from sugarcane and sugar beets and used in many foods, drinks, and medicines to improve their taste. Also called table sugar.
2. Any of a class of water-soluble crystalline carbohydrates, including sucrose and lactose, having a characteristically sweet taste and classified as monosaccharides, disaccharides, and trisaccharides.
3. A unit, such as a lump or cube, in which sugar is dispensed or taken.
4. Slang Sweetheart. Used as a term of endearment.
v. sug·ared, sug·ar·ing, sug·ars
v.tr.
1. To coat, cover, or sweeten with sugar.
2. To make less distasteful or more appealing.
v.intr.
1. To form sugar.
2. To form granules; granulate.
3. To make sugar or syrup from sugar maple sap. Often used with off.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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